Torque (Widescreen Edition)

Torque (Widescreen Edition)

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• High-Speed Action Adventure. Biker Cary Ford (Martin Henderson) returns to his hometown to reunite with his girlfriend (Monet Mazur). Once home, Ford is framed for a murder he didn't commit, targeted for revenge by the victim's brother (Ice Cube) and pursued by the FBI as he tries to clear his name and outrace his enemies.Running Time: 84 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE

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DVD Review: Zoom, zoom...
Summary: 4 Stars

I don't even know why I rented this movie. I'll be the first to tell you that beyond BT's work with the soundtrack, I found little redeeming in The Fast And The Furious. I didn't even bother to see 2 Fast 2 Furious. I sat through 5 minutes of Biker Boyz and laughed the whole time at it before deciding it wasn't worth watching. But for some reason, when I started watching Torque, I started smirking. Before I knew it, I was grinning like an idiot and enjoying this completely and utterly absurd guilty pleasure.

The plot? Not that it matters in a movie like this, but the basic concept is this guy Ford (Martin Henderson) comes home after spending some months in Thailand to take care of some things that have been hanging over his head. See, it seems he skipped town when some stuff regarding motorcycles, drugs and his hot babe went awry. So he's back to try and fix things, but of course, things get way worse when the little brother of Ice Cube's biker gang gets offed in a dirty bathroom, and Ford gets set up to take the fall. It's predictable, it's derivative, and it's merely a tool to link the racing / fighting / fighting-while-racing scenes together. Director Joseph Kahn, a veteran of, surprise, music videos, bestows his big-screen debut with an insane amount of polish and gloss. To his credit, Kahn does have a good eye for the action, and as a result the completely impossible stunt pieces look great. Kahn actually has a sense of timing with his effects and slow-motion shots, giving some method to this total madness.

The action figures...er, actors? They stand, zoom (zoom) around, pose, look pretty, drop groan-worthy one-liners left and right, and generally have a good time. It's about as much as one can expect from a flick like this.

So what sets Torque apart from its equally moronic brethren? The fact that it doesn't take itself seriously. Kahn and his cast know they're not making "real" movie, or at least seem to. Everything is played up for a sight gag, and even the script, as dumb as it is, has enough sense to poke fun at itself. "I live my life a quarter-mile at a time," Ford says at one point in the film, to which his cuter-than-Christmas co-star Monet Mazur responds, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." YES!!!

So grab yourself a brew, a big bowl of popcorn, or nachos, or pizza, or whatever, and kick your brain's kick-stop down. Then turn up the volume, sit back, and enjoy 80 minutes of CGI-enhanced stuntwork, slow-motion effets, zoom (zoom... Yeah, I've seen those Mazda commercials too many times...) zooming cameras, gorgeous women, macho men, and enough comedy, more intentional than not, to please even the most jaded critic. Like John Carpenter's Big Trouble In Little China, Torque does everything with its tongue firmly planted in its cheek, and thanks to that, is more fun than it has any right to be.

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